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If you're looking to start your kid off with both a tough-guy attitude as well as an air of entitlement, you can't go wrong with the ludicrous Oakley Roddler stroller. While it's a concept that's apparently "inspired" by Oakley, it looks more inspired by a combo of overpriced strollers and military aircraft.
For anyone with a child, that bond you feel with your offspring is the most powerful in nature. And your protective instincts demand the absolute best in child safety, like this $US4,000 Wing Man baby seat prototype. It's constructed of strong, lightweight carbon fibre—the same material used in performance cars and aeroplanes across the world—that should keep your little bundle of joy stylish and nearly invincible. But just so your know, dear parent, all of us without a child think that you're freaking nuts for reading this many words on a $US4,000 baby seat. [carbonfibergear via Jalopnik]
Posted by Nick Broughall at 10:00 AM on November 18, 2008
Why be content with buying your own geeky clothing from ThinkGeek when you can now make your children spread the geeky word as well. Amber over at sister site Babblebaby sends word that one of our favourite online shopping sites has now launched a special sub-site for kitting out your mini-mes with smaller versions of the same tech-inspired threads. There's also a whole host of geeky toys to keep junior entertained for hours. And with Christmas just over a month away now, the timing couldn't be better for geeking out your entire family's wardrobe...
[ThinkGeek via Babblebaby]
According to designer Duck Young Kong--probably the best name ever in the history of best names ever--his Lunar Baby Thermometer is great because "it eliminates the need to insert an external tool while holding them in a still position" since it uses the "common and natural behaviour of putting your hand on the forehead to measure internal heat of their body". It's a good idea. Until somebody tells you that the forehead may not be the best place to measure temperatures.
With all of the dangers lurking out there these days, you probably shouldn't let your toddler out of your sight for any length of time. However, should they escape your clutches this electronic wristlet concept could deliver text and graphic symbol messages to the child via a solar-powered display. My thought on this is that if your child is old enough to read the display then he is probably old enough for one of the many kid-oriented mobile phones on the market. Perhaps it would be better utilised as a friendship bracelet for the 21st century—something that combines the benefits of text messaging with the benefits of wearing tacky accessories. [Yanko Design]
Posted by Nick Broughall at 12:30 PM on October 29, 2008
Don't let that picture of a cute little kid up there fool you - Kideos can be used for adults too. There's nothing in the terms and conditions that says you have to upload a child's photo to the Kideo website to get a 26-minute Spider-Man cartoon featuring their face and name as the web-slinging hero. For 40 bucks, you can become Spider-Man - that sounds like a bargain to me.
Although, you may want to stick with a child's pic for the Dora the Explorer, Barney and Gregory Gopher videos - using your own mugshot there would just be creepy and wrong.
[Kideo - Thanks Amber!]
As much fun as it is to tinker with Microsoft's multitouch Surface table, most of its applications have been decidedly gimmicky. By offering a lower price (sooner than MS), more compact design, and more complete suite of software, SmartTech wants to bring multitouch tables to the people who would probably most appreciate them — kids. From the video (and press release), it looks as if the SMART Table has a nearly identical — if not better — set of capabilities to the Surface: multitouch, gesture support, a 27in screen and a super-simple SDK. Details are slim at the moment, but the price is a comparatively low $US7000, so expect to see the SMART Table popping up in more affluent school districts as early as Spring 2009. [SMART via Crunchgear]
A new 9,000-square-foot (835 square metres), 3-story spaceship called "Second Solar" has just been constructed in the German city of Böblingen, designed to travel to distant solar systems to research inhabitable environments. It's loaded up with "giant engines, a thermal shell to protect the crew and landing runners designed to cope with unknown surface conditions." Oh, and it was designed for children.
Yesterday marked the arrival of Elmo Live, the rapping, dancing and storytelling animatronic doll that'll be burning up retail this holiday season, Great Depression or not. We got one of the little guys, and thoroughly evaluated his MC skills, jokes and hugging ability. He's a fun little dude, at least for a short while. Watch this video review before you "decide" to succumb to the will of your kids and invest whatever cash you still have in Elmo Live.
Evil monolith Apple has begun a nefarious program to snatch children from the warm arms of their home PCs with ominous-sounding "field trips." These trips do lead to a field, but not one with grass and trees and sunshine. This is a field of glass, of white plastic, of aluminium, and of shameful minimalism.
Yesterday marked the arrival of Elmo Live, the 